{"id":503390,"date":"2026-06-17T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503390\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:20:09","slug":"teenage-cyclist-fatally-injured-in-co-waterford-road-traffic-incident-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503390\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage cyclist fatally injured in Co Waterford road traffic incident \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A young male cyclist has died following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\">road traffic incident<\/a> in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\/\">Waterford<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The teenager\u2019s bicycle collided with a parked lorry on the N72 road at Ballygalane, just outside Lismore, shortly after 11am on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The teenager was pronounced dead at the scene. His body was removed to University Hospital Waterford, where a postmortem is due to take place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of the lorry was not injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A section of the road was closed for a time to allow for a technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision investigators, but it has since reopened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> are appealing for any witnesses, including those with dash cam footage, who may have been travelling on the N72 between Lismore and Cappoquin between 10.30am and 11.15am on Tuesday to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident brings to 80 the number of people killed on the State\u2019s road so far this year, up from 73 in the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young male cyclist has died following a road traffic incident in Co Waterford. The teenager\u2019s bicycle collided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,43,11318,40,38,41,39,6513],"class_list":["post-503390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-road-safety","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}